I realize this sounds trite already, but I can't believe it's 2009. It may not be a remarkable year in the numeric sense, or even the aesthetic sense. It's just always been a year far in the future. Was it five years ago that Jay Leno announced that Conan O'Brian would take over for him on The Tonight Show in 2009? Four, five, or six years it must have been. It always seemed like such a long time for us Conan fans to await his promotion to 10:30pm! (11:30pm for those on the east coast - you poor people, having to stay up so late.) And now the time has come. Of course, NBC is afraid to lose such a high profile person as Leno, so they're shifting him to 9pm instead, the cowards. And I'm usually not in front of a TV during the semester, so I'll have to make an effort to see his first few shows... to see whether they crush his soul or not. That's neither here nor there.
The Tonight Show changing-of-the-guard isn't the only remarkable thing awaiting for me in 2009. For three and a half years, I have been a member of the Class of 2009. I still am. I've seen it on my facebook profile page. I'm used to it. But now it's here. It somehow did not hit me in the last few months that my college years would soon be at an end, but now it's going to scream at me every time I write the date. My mild meltdown has finally found me. I'm graduating in five months. Unreal.
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